READING COMPREHENSION FOR 10º

ACTIVITY

Read the texts and answer the questions.

SELLING HUMAN EGGS

A twenty-five-year-old English woman has advertised 1) __________ own eggs for sale 2) __________the internet to pay off her credit card debt. She 3) __________ that she has three jobs - a day job and two part-time jobs in pubs 4) __________ the evening, but thinks selling her eggs would be a better way to 5) __________ out her money problems.

Last year, the law changed and children 6) __________ from donated eggs can be told 7) __________their biological mother is. Since then, fewer women have been donating eggs. Critics 8) __________that it is dangerous to donate eggs and also say that people should do it for free and not for money. Despite the critics, it is likely that paying for eggs will become more common in the future.

 1. a. the            b. her          c. hers

2. a. in               b. at             c. on

3. a. tells           b. says        c. speaks

4. a. in              b. on             c. at

5. a. sorting      b. sorted      c. sort

6. a. born          b. be born    c. are borned

7. a. that            b. whom       c. who

8. a. saying       b. say           c. says

KENYAN FISH

Researchers in Kenya have found 1) __________ a fish could be an effective weapon in the fight to reduce the spread of malaria. A fish that is 2) __________ eaten was introduced to several places 3) __________ the west of the country.  The fish eats mosquito larvae,4) __________ are young mosquitoes before they have wings.

People have known 5) __________ a long time that this fish eats mosquitoes, but this was 6) __________ first time that researchers had looked at how the fish could be used 7) __________ control malaria, which 8) __________ 300 million people ill and causes a million deaths worldwide every year.

Questions

1. a. which                b. who                       c. that

2. a. normal              b. normality              c. normally

3. a. on                      b. in                           c. at

4. a. which                b. where                    c. that

5. a. since                 b. for                         c. from

6. a. at                        b. his                         c. the

7. a. for                      b. to                           c. under